But there are other options out there: the niche or specialty job boards. The advantage of these sites is that they focus on a specific industry or career field. They might have less jobs available than the “monster” job boards, but they have a focus on a specific field and thus there’s much less riff-raff. For a lot of job searchers, it’s easier to find timely, serious job openings on the niche boards.

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of niche job boards out there. Some only have a handful of jobs, or are updated rarely. Here is a list of the niche boards I have found to be the busiest and the best (in no particular order):

I launched CareerVitals.com in 9/2010 after being very frustrated that I had to visit a handful of general boards as well as niche healthcare boards to find out what jobs were available in my area. CareerVitals allows job seekers to search all available healthcare and medical jobs with just one search. You can search and apply to over one million nurse, medical doctor, allied health, dental, biotech and pharmacy jobs.

The site is still a work in progress as we are constantly trying to improve the functionality and add helpful content and tools. In early 2011 we will be launching our employer side, offering free job postings plans as well as other attractive options for employers.

I really hope that this job board proves helpful to the thousands of folks in the industry still looking for employment. It has been a tough few years, but it looks like things are picking up on the job front and that employers are starting to hire again.